Kneading-tray.



PATENTED JAN. 16, 1906.

w. 0. BLACK.

KNEADING TRAY.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 31,1904,

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W gjwvamtoz wivtmwoao No. 810,101. PATENTED JAN. 16, 1906. W. 0. BLACK.

.KNEADING TRAY.

AIPLICA'I'ION FILED 0GT.31.1904.

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UNITED STATES WILLIAM C. BLACK, OF PLYMOUTH, OHIO.

KN EADlNG-TRAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16, 1906.

Application filed October 31, 1904. Serial No 230,810.

To (ML w/wm, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WVILLIAM C. BLACK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Plymouth, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Kneading-Tray, of which the following is a specification;

The invention relates to improvements in kneading-trays.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of kneading-trays and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one of great strength and durability adapted to be easily manufactured from a single piece of sheet metal.

A further object of the invention is to enable a tray of great strength to be constructed of sheet metal without the use of wood or other reinforcing material and to provide a perfectly sanitary one adapted to be easily and thoroughly cleaned.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details of construction within the scope of the claim may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a kneadingtray constructed in accordance with'this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of a kneading-tray, showing another form of the invention. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional View of the same. Fig. 6 is a reverse plan view of the front portion of the tray, illustrating the construction of the front roll.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawlngs.

1 designates a kneading-tray constructed of a single piece of sheet metal and adapted to be placed on a table or other suitable support and having its front edge bent to form a substantially cylindrical roll 2, which, as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings, extends above and below the bottom of the kneadingtray. The depending or downwardly-extending portion of the roll 2 is adapted to fit against the edge of the top of a table to form a stop for preventing the kneading-tray from slipping when the same is in use. The upwardly-extending portion of the roll 2 forms a front wall for the kneading-tray to prevent flour or the like from getting on the clothes of the person kneading dough. The projecting roll also forms a guard for preventing the clothes of a person from coming in contact with the body of the tray.

The kneading-tray is provided with rigid upwardly-extending side and rear walls 3 and 4. The side walls, which terminate short of the front and rear walls to provide front and rear side spaces or openings 5 and 6, consist of flanges which are doubled or bent upon themselves, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, for stiffening the tray. The ends of the side walls are beveled or tapered at the spaces or openings 5 and 6, so as to extend substantially the entire length of the bottom of the tray for stiffening the same adjacent to the end walls. This construction enables the kneading-tray to be easily cleaned, as it permits the flour or meal to pass out readily.

The rear wall 4 consists of an upwardly-extending approximately triangular roll, and it presents a front inclined face, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The front and rear rolls 2 and 4 are secured at their free edges to the tray by solder or other suitable means, and these rolls are also adapted to stiffen the kneading-tray. The bottom of the rear roll 4 is flat and is arranged in the same plane as and forms a continuation of the bottom of the tray.

By this construction a tray of great strength and durability may be easily and cheaply manufactured without employing wood or other material in its construction.

In Figs. 4 to 6, inclusive, of the drawings is illustrated another form of the invention, the side walls 7 of the kneading-tray 8 being extended to the rear wall 9 and securedto the same by solder or other suitable means. The front ends of the sidewalls 7 terminate short of the front roll 10 to provide front corneropenings 1 1, and they are beveled or tapered, as clearly shown in Figs. 4 and 5. The ends 12 of the front roll are also cut away at the bottom, as illustrated in Fig. 6. The rear wall 9 consists of an upwardly-extending flange which is doubled upon itself to stiffen the back of the kneading-tray. The knead-- ing-tray is provided adjacent to one of its rear corners with an opening 13 for enabling ICC IO and the said front Wall consisting of a roll extending above the bottom and also projecting below the same to form a depending stop for engaging the edge of a table.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature 15 in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

\ WILLIAM 0. BLACK.

Witnesses:

J. E. GUNsAULLUs, F. D. GUNSAULLUS 

